energy efficiency

News about energy efficiency

Article | 22/07/2010 How An ERP System Can Help Manage Your Company's Energy Use
A few years ago, we had the local electric company do a home energy audit. Our 19th-century house was hard to heat, and as we suspected, the inspector...
Article | 19/07/2010 Virtualization no cure-all for data center energy crunch
Virtualization gave data center managers some breathing room in their battle against rising energy use, but more changes are needed to keep pace with ...
Article | 16/07/2010 Standard proposed for measuring data center efficiency
A group of organizations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centers to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness, aiming to b...
Article | 22/03/2010 Viridity's power management tool aims to boost efficiency
Startup Viridity Software is releasing a new tool on Monday to help companies keep track of the power being used by each piece of IT equipment in thei...
Article | 10/03/2010 Sentilla's energy management tool gets chargeback feature
Sentilla has released an update to its data-center energy management tool, which lets IT and facilities staff track the energy usage of servers and ot...

Features about energy efficiency

Article | 29/04/2010 Life after IBM is all green for ISS co-founder Tom Noonan
It was 2006, and Tom Noonan had it all. Internet Security Systems (ISS), the company he co-founded and led as CEO, was pulling in $US400 million in an...
Article | 5/02/2010 NY hospital cuts power bill with thin-client virtualization
New York City's Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers is saving power and money by replacing its desktop computers with thin clients running virtuali...
Article | 12/05/2009 Digital Gear: Gadgets to cut energy costs
Consumer electronics like monitors, even in standby mode, can be notorious energy hogs that silently add to monthly electricity bills. Companies are c...
Article | 21/04/2009 Three Rules for Managing PC Power Usage
Nearly a third of tech's power usage comes from PCs and peripherals, according to a new Gartner report. How can companies stem this power flow? CIOs c...

Whitepapers about energy efficiency

Guidance for Calculation of Efficiency (PUE) in Data Centers

The benefits of determining data center infrastructure efficiency as part of an effective energy management plan are widely recognised. The standard metrics of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and its reciprocal Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency1 (DCIE) have emerged as recognised standards. This paper defines a standard approach to collecting data from data centers and showing how to use it to calculate PUE, with a focus on what to do with data that is confusing or incomplete.
Virtualisation and Cloud Computing: Optimised Power, Cooling, and Management Maximises Benefits
Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centres